Eurasia Review – by MINAWhile the West is busy staging coups around the world, Moscow today set out plans to conquer and colonise space, including a permanent manned moon base.
Deputy premier Dmitry Rogozin said: ‘We are coming to the moon forever.’
His comments came as President Vladimir Putin toured the Cosmonautics Memorial Museum in Moscow. On Saturday, Russia celebrates Cosmonaut Day marking Yuri Gagarin’s pioneering flight into space on April 12, 1961.
In an article in the government’s own newspaper headlined ‘Russian Space’, he spoke of targeting Mars and other ‘space objects’ as future priorities.
‘Flights to Mars and asteroids in our view do not contradict exploration of the moon, but in many senses imply this process.’
He wrote of ‘colonisation of the moon and near-moon space’.
In the next 50 years, manned flights are unlikely beyond ‘the space between Venus and Mars’.
Stellar plans: The announcement was made by deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin in the state newspaper.
But ‘it is quite possible to speak about exploration of Mars, flights to asteroids and flights to Mars’.
The essential first step as a base for research and experiments was the moon, said Rogozin, who is in overall charge of Russia’s space and defence industries, and was recently targeted for EU and US sanctions over the Ukrainian crisis.
‘The moon is not an intermediate point in the race,’ he wrote in official daily Rossiiskaya Gazeta, conjuring an impression of a new space race with America.
‘It is a separate, even a self-contained goal.
‘It would hardly be rational to make some ten or 20 flights to the moon, and then wind it all up and fly to the Mars or some asteroids.
‘This process has the beginning, but has no end. We are coming to the moon forever.’
Currently, Russia has plans to launch three lunar spacecraft – two to the surface and one to orbit – by the end of the decade.
The first mission, the long-delayed Luna-25, is slated for launch in 2016, to research the moon’s south pole.
The next two missions will include an orbiter to monitor the moon in 2018, and a year later a polar lander with a drill will search for water ice.
By 2040, Russia plans to create a lunar base for long-term missions to the Earth’s natural satellite.
Rogozin said that the moon is the only realistic source to obtain water, minerals and other resources for future space missions.
A lunar laboratory complex will also be used for testing new space technologies.
He promised the development of ‘a super-heavy rocket for lunar missions and to the Mars in the future’.
Rogozin claimed sanctions including the termination of space cooperation announced by the US ‘can contribute’ to a stronger Russian space industry.
It will force Russia ‘to create a strategy of development of Russian manned space flights, independent from unreliable international partners’.
He stressed: ‘We should not be afraid to dream, to raise the bar as high as possible for our future development.
‘Russia has everything needed for a new breakthrough in space research.’
http://www.eurasiareview.com/14042014-russia-wants-permanent-moon-base/
Moonraker was awesome.
I feel the U.S. and others already have a secret space program, and are already there and beyond…. just my opinion….
Don’t be modest. 🙂 There is quite a lot of evidence that strongly points to that being the case. Some of Americans are pilots and spend a lot of time watching for other air vehicles so we don’t bump into them. Its a real drag if that happens. Nowhere to pull over and stop at 9,000 feet MSL. 🙂 You also see vehicles that can do things your little puddle jumper can’t do, or neither could an SR-71 for that matter. 🙂 Alien craft? I’d bet most of these advanced gravidic drive vehicles are home grown by either the governments of the major countries or another human civilization coexisting with our own. Good book to read is “Dark Mission” by Richard C. Hoagland. His website is http://www.enterprisemission.com. Interesting video presentation this astrophysicist makes.
Hoagland is a whack job. He claims that the background seen in the ‘lunar landing’ shots was created by aliens, and is nothing more that a hologram.
Although the background was NOT of space around the moon, it WAS faked. Stanley Kubrick filmed the entire thing right here on Earth.
http://store.sacredmysteriesmarketplace.com/dvds/kubrick-s-odyssey-part-1-dvd.html
At least Russia can get some tips from their American counter part since America has been there already, but hey the more the merrier, & if the United States have no recent plans to go back to the Moon, or to start sending people to Mars, we might as well welcome Russia, as we watch them, Like they did us for a while, God Bless Russia as they journey throughout the Universe, and keep them all safe.
This is a nonsensical dream that some idiot uttered after reading too many comic books. It’s as bad as Kennedy saying “We will put a man on the moon” to the American people before finding out if it was even possible. (It isn’t)
What the hell are they gong to do with a moon base? I know what the article says they’ll use it for, but ask yourself if this silliness is practical, or even possible.
The moon has no atmosphere, so all of the meteorites that burn up before they hit the Earth have a free pass to the moonscape, and that means the surface is constantly being pelted with high-velocity rocks. (Wernher Von Braun estimated that someone on the surface of the moon was unlikely to survive more than five minutes unless he found cover) So to begin, your moon base has to be a hardened structure, or dug into the rock. It’s not something you’re gong to fly up there and snap together, and any kind of major construction project up there is beyond realistic.
Secondly, there’s still no way for humans (or any living organism) to survive passage through the Van Allen radiation belt. The lead shield needed to accomplish this would be too heavy to escape the Earth’s gravity.
Thirdly, is it worth the effort to send humans up there when the remote controlled vehicles are sending back good information, without the logistical nightmares that sending humans would require?
Politicians like to fill their population’s heads with grandiose achievements that make them proud to be Russian, or proud to be American, but no one is going to the moon because even if it weren’t impossible, it would still be stupid.
And NO human has been there yet. Or if they do send someone up there, he’s never coming back, and it’s doubtful that he’ll live very long.
Thank you for this post JR, this mornings post about the US gifting the moon to the Chinese makes me feel vindicated. Just because we were told something happened, doesn’t make it so. The MSM back in the 60’s could mesmerize the population, as TV was a relatively new technology.
All of your points are spot on. Bravo. Have a great night. I’m off to sleep, I have family arriving tomorrow. Yay! 🙂
“Secondly, there’s still no way for humans (or any living organism) to survive passage through the Van Allen radiation belt. The lead shield needed to accomplish this would be too heavy to escape the Earth’s gravity.”
You beat me to it, JR. lol
That’s the most important point that eliminates any notion or possibility of anyone in the 60’s or today of ever landing on the moon.
I thought China was the higher bidder? There moon and all.
Not really. Everything China has technically they got from either US or Russia.
Folks might want to take a look at this video.